This management alert responds to a request from Representative Mario Diaz-Balart’s office on behalf of Broward County, FL, to review the disposal process for the U.S. Postal Service’s Pembroke Pines Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC). The alert addresses the bid negotiation process related to the sale of the Pembroke Pines P&DC. Summary The Postal Service…
By Michael Neibauer – June 14, 2016 For roughly five decades, the U.S. Postal Service facility at 2135 Fifth St. NE in Eckington was the only equipment shop for the entire postal system, manufacturing millions of mailbags and hundreds of thousands of postal locks every year. Last week, the Postal Service sold the 79,380-square-foot historic…
May 8, 2015 Next week the Postal Service will close the post office and processing center on Franklin Street in downtown Houston. It’s a historic building, eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, but it looks as though it is headed for demolition. In a “memorandum of agreement” about the disposal, the Postal Service…
For Immediate Release 04/29/2015 – Washington – The U.S. Postal Service belongs to the people of this country. We must not permit postal executives and the Board of Governors to sell our beautiful historic buildings at a discount; nor should we permit CBRE to drain the Postal Service treasury with lease deals that benefit the…
Audit Report – SM-AR-15-003 – 04/22/2015 Background Under a June 2011 contract, CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE) is the sole provider of real estate management services for the U.S. Postal Service. These services include marketing and sale of properties and conducting lease negotiations. In fiscal years 2012 and 2013, CBRE marketed 49 property sales totaling about…
By Judith Scherr – February 20, 2015 BERKELEY — Calling their lawsuits against the U.S. Postal Service “test cases,” attorneys suing the U.S. Postal Service over its attempt to sell Berkeley’s century-old downtown post office said they believe a winning legal strategy will help save historic post offices across the country. The attorneys, Brian Turner,…
By Brian Ballou – February 17, 2015 The cavernous U.S. Postal Service distribution center here buzzed with activity for nearly two decades. Then the the Internet choked off business and the operation moved two years ago to Miami-Dade County as part of a nationwide cost-cutting effort. Now the 345,377 square-foot facility, more than double the…
By Richard Johnson – January 16, 2015 Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done. The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator’s husband, Richard Blum,…
